Mines Malingerer
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Joined: Saturday, 26th April 2014, 18:09
Beogh Suggestions
Suggestion 2: Rework Beogh's gifting of allies to scale quantity and quality to Invocations+XL. (And Piety?) Something like: Beogh will gift you followers if you have less than (formula derived from XL, Invocations, and possibly Piety) HD of minions in the world, rather than gifting you minions when you have none on the current floor. This would make training Invocations something other than Smite boost/make Hill Orc +3 in Invocations more relevant to Beoghites, and would make follower gifts more consistent and less weird. Currently, if you have one Warlord following you around, if you want a gift of followers you should abandon the Warlord on another floor until Beogh gifts you minions, which is weird, unintuitive behavior; shouldn't Beogh be able to tell I have almost nobody and decide that merits a follower gift? Gifting up to a maximum of HD provides a roof (Instead of Beogh just gifting minions relentlessly) but also lets Beogh decide two loser Orcs is not fitting for the XL27 Messiah. Scaling the quality of the follower gift would also make it a little easier to come back from a total wipe, even if you've emptied the Mines. Note that I do not mean Beogh gifts a maxed out character a half dozen Warlords every time the previous batch dies: I'm thinking more in terms of an overall shift upwards, but any given minion can still be popcorn and if Warlords ever enter the pool of possible minion gifts it never rises above a very low chance. So initially you won't be gifted anything above basic Orcs, but a mid-late character can expect to get Knights mixed in routinely enough that building up to Warlords on Zot threats is not some pipe dream.
Suggestion 3: Make Beogh's blessings of minions 'meatier'. When I first played I assumed Beogh was directly increasing my minion's AC and damage, but in actuality he is merely using 100% reliable scrolls of enchantment on their gear. This means the Orcs themselves are only permanently improved by 'ranking up' and, unless I've misunderstood things, raising their HD ("Your Warlord looks more experienced"), while the blessings are effectively wasted anytime they find better gear. (Or gear their AI considers to be better) 0.15 is apparently dumping allies picking up equipment and reworking Beoghite Orcs appropriately, so this might be redundant, but it would still be nice if my flock actually got improvements to their personal qualities. (I will admit specific ideas largely elude me: increasing their speed would be ridiculous on a number of levels, resistances opens up all kinds of problems...)